Ellen Javernick, M.A.

Ellen Javernick M.A. has a dual career as a writer and as a first and second grade teacher at Namaqua Elementary School in Loveland, CO. While working with struggling readers, she discovered that those children and many other students were terrible spellers. Determined to help them overcome their difficulties in this area, she developed a two-pronged structured and sequential approach to teaching spelling using patterns and mnemonic clues.